Quote by Joseph Addison
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? – Joseph Addison

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Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding places in a voluminous writer. – Joseph Addison

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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance. – Joseph Addison

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In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons. – Croesus

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Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said Box about: twill come to my father anon. – John Aubrey

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Noble fathers have noble children. – Euripides

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Call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your Father, which is in heaven. – Bible

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